The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-03-02
NO.. II.

Of the Austrian authorities, and on
board an Austrian man of war. A further
condition was that Colonel was never to
accept civil Office in this country.
These conditions were faithfully OBJ
served up to the time Of Colonel Rion's
last fatal illness. He is not known to
have conided the story of his birth to
any one except his eldest daughter. He
is said to have told her the story two or
three years ago, when she was about to
sail for Europe. It is said that one OF
her purposes in going to Europe was to
examine into the death of the Dsuphin
and to obtain such knowledge in regard
to it as was possible from tradition and
otherwise.
"It is also said that when Colonel
Rion referred to the subject just before
his death he observed in the counten-
ances Of those who we're gathered about
him that they supposed his mind to be
wandering, and that he said to them:
you think that my mind is wandering,
but I am in possession of all my reason
ing faculties. he then asked Dr..
Hanahan to put him to some test In
order to demonstrate the fact that he
was perfectly rational. He said (tapping
his breast) 4 have the proofs here of the
truth of what [ say
s:Colonel Rion is known to have been
in possession of q very valuable gold
snuff-box, set with diamonds, upon the
top of which there is a monogram Of the
Orleans Family wrought in diamonds.
This snuf-box, it is said, had never been
seen by any member of his family until
his death, but he is known to have ex-
hibited it once, in 1885, to an intimate
personal and professional friend, under
injunctions of secrecy, which have been
removed by his death. He gave no IN
timation to his friend of the history
connected with the possession Of this
box, except to say that MIR. Clemson,
the son-in-law Of John G. Calhoun,
brought it to him from France, when he
(AIr. Clemsen) was secretary Of the
American legation in Paris. The snuff
box has been valued by ieweller, since
Colonel Rion's death, at s., ZOO, and Is
OF most. costly and exquisite workman
ship.
oo1o-1el 80 li5 80 e;a W. 80 10 -
years ago anu yoio q tileau ~, 49, +ha he M o1d
returned InaG Ae nAG Seeu - DnS -
CaIneorai at -hoiIieal 'iie ieSoio VI Ai'
baptism.
ut is understood that Colonel Rion's
family are now preparing for publication
q full statement of the facts in the case
and that there is much evidence 70 sus-
tain the confession made by him lust
before his death. Certainly no one who
knew. him would doubt for a moment
the +rnth Of any statement that he made
r,-ban clothed in his rioht mind for he
,'.as ~aa14t +,,a u.Ts.r VOW so,,i m of honor
% VIC '0lJ '0''1 " '1
a FURTHER stAli NE-NI'
". c. Rlon, Esq, OF Nlnnsooro, son OF
the late Jamcs II. Rion, has sent the fol
lowing note 10 Mr.. n. u. Gonzales OF the
-letcS 01ti Courier:
AS mcnLioncd yesterday, we did not
desire publicity given 10 my father strange
story, and upon second thought, and after
consultation with the family here and some
of my fathers friends, l think it best not to
satisfy the curiosity of the public on a mat
Ter which should have been, in the first in
stance, one of secrecy as far as they were
concerned Therefore, you will excuse me
from furnishing the data promised you.
However, the many inaccuracies and an
achronisuls in the true statement made by
my father, taken together with his acuons
anu lnCone,Tn0t.S ,L 49, &c.. ~ T1nrnb;ns .nS
va, "%' ~ u'i ~ ri,tnt mind when he made it
I-I u,,cn ~ ,bi2It NO imnortance or WEIGHT
nan hI aiven rhis wanderinq of an eyciieji
90 ~ 80, tj, tbat ths Srstnment VIC moSe
'!.stT ..T,' 1eA' @ +oid ron tSere arc nvidences
.h,, ~ b;mSeif halisyod thaf he was the
snT sti,,' - ~ tive ~ Dsmnhin hnt rs far as nroofs
sou W ot.u -bat bo 1nas in realitv sncb
a.e 49, .hosa as w. o-.,' nona Dr p : Hono-
petson, 'u..e ats - Di',..;o;nn 10 ~ +;roa
nan tHe '.ttenu!ns pny EaIio,,.; ,'S , ,o-.
el Ihe sIiteHent ''ii:t tno totoutnS -
ing, expressed II as LIS optnIoa tnd1 a'He1
was UNDER inc iInueLce nI % -, nG5 pLIo pn-ne
ne isEtlc:e DtooG VI ~ lnc Dun 'I oons, as
estetuus p..n'e,' o'd 80 r,,hi;catin, [a
ats 1 q ett0.eG t;,- s ooncerneS that = sin,n11.
~ s;;n,Io,. tnI ,,, o, con Genv The truth Of the
.,"tou,or+ .,.'.or &c nnhI;shed mon nv authority
oJ oISn Sta, shat F,rher was Under the in.
.,,anao - ,I,ornbinn Wien the STRANGE story
-tueNto 80 - ~. WI bin, Further tban tSis voi,
vas toiu ~ -. ,Ha -o-.sa1f foUo- bI1
"ou!u w .ne lauisty ''''1t Tt sarar arE
p;U -. onS,os f-om Tho fomiIv vour naner
\ correspondent OF the Ncwberry HerGIa
@nd AeNs, IN the last Issue Oh tHa1 paper,